Children's Technology Workshop Franchise:

The after-school children’s enrichment market is one of the hottest areas of interest and growth in education today. CTWorkshop (www.ctworkshop.com), founded in 1997, has grown to 43 locations around the world since it began franchising in 2004. The curriculum gives children an opportunity to explore, invent and create doing engineering and science, robotics, animation, video game creation, video production and chroma key special effects, digital art and digital story telling. The program is offered through summer and seasonal day camps, after-school Workshop Clubs, in-school Academic supplementary education, and birthday parties and special events. In the summer of 2006, CTWorkshop camps, called icamp™, (the “i” stands for individualized) ran in 75 locations around the globe.

Industry Opportunity:

A year-round business that can start off as home administered, CTWorkshop is appropriate for children aged 4-14 (pre-K to Grade 8). At icamp children choose from a range of adventures that include an expedition to Egypt to discover a Pharaoh’s treasure, or a mission to Mars to rescue trapped astronauts, to name two of the 10 different choices for creating stories, set designs, robots, and much more. Each adventure has as many as 30 different projects to choose from so a child can come back and do the same adventure many times, or a different adventure each week.

We have three different types of territories. In North America our metropolitan territories are built using zip codes in urban environments. These territories encompass areas with up to 600,000 people, 100s of schools, day care facilities, houses of worship and other places where children gather. We also have introduced a small market model for more rural settings and small cities with populations of between 100,000 and 300, 000. Our international territories encompass populations of 1.5 million. In any of these territories we encourage our franchisees to offer the entire curriculum and create multiple camp locations to build a financially rewarding year-round business.